Initial Drawing on AutoCAD 2005 Startup

[scott.commercial]

Is there any way to disable the opening of "Drawing1" when AutoCAD 2005 is launched. With older releases you used to be able to set the Initial Drawing setting to "." and it would not load a blank .dwg.

Possibly a registry setting??

Thanks!
SM
Jacksonville, FL

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Have a browse of the following thread -

new drawing upon start-up..

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Have a browse of the following threads from the Autodesk Discussion Groups "AutoCAD 2005" -

Start without opening a template

Open Empty Autocad

Have a good one, Mike

[vpoon]

Is there any way to disable the opening of "Drawing1" when AutoCAD 2005 is launched. With older releases you used to be able to set the Initial Drawing setting to "." and it would not load a blank .dwg.

Possibly a registry setting??

Thanks!
SM
Jacksonville, FL

I have the same problem with ACAD2006. Did you have any luck finding the answer?

[Mike.Perry]

I have the same problem with ACAD2006. Did you have any luck finding the answer?

Hi

Have you worked through the information found within the links given above ?

Have a good one, Mike

[vpoon]

Hi

Have you worked through the information found within the links given above ?

Have a good one, Mike

Yes, none of those helped. When you open ACAD2004 or older, you will see 'Drawing1' loaded by default. but when you open another file, it automatically close that drawing1 file. However, it is not the case in 2005 or 2006. What changed?

thanks

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

The information found in those links do answer the original question.

With the above, you are now asking a slightly different question ( but a different question never-the-less ).

As far as I am aware ( which means nothing ), the only way AutoCAD behaves as you now describe, is when SDI is set to 1 ( One ).

Have a good one, Mike

[girishpongalil]

I wrote this code in my acad.mnl and works fine .
My Acad05 wont open any drawing with name "DRAWING1.dwg". So do not use this drawing name for any work.

(if (= (STRCASE (SUBSTR (getvar "dwgname") 1 ) "DRAWING1") (command "close"))


Note: SDI to be 0

[rkmcswain]

Yes, none of those helped. When you open ACAD2004 or older, you will see 'Drawing1' loaded by default. but when you open another file, it automatically close that drawing1 file. However, it is not the case in 2005 or 2006. What changed?

thanks

Nothing changed with AutoCAD. What changed is that something in your startup is modifying "drawing1".

When you open AutoCAD, immediately check the value of DBMOD. If it's not 0, then drawing1 stays open when you select another drawing.

Of course if SDI=1, then you are prompted to save "drawing1"

Find out what is modifying "drawing1" upon startup and get rid of it in your startup files.

[vpoon]

It turns out that the following 2 variables in my startup was affecting DBMOD.

UCSFOLLOW
ELEVATION

Thanks to everyone for helping.